Recorded + Mastered by Jason Fuller at Goatsound / Mixed by Xavier Irvine at Loaf / Copyright infringement + layout by ESP MAYHEM – ”What’s mine is mine / What’s yours is also mine”
So psyched with how this turned out! This is our first recording that really nails the ESPM sound – thick, loud, unique, crazy! Technically ESPM is a very hard band to record & mix but Jason & Xavier did an amazing job getting it all together while being mercilessly overseen, scrutinised and nitpicked by us. Stream it on Bandcamp or Spotify, physical copies available through the emails in the flyer above and also at The Searchers in Melbourne, Repressed in Sydney or Bad Habit in Nambour, and more distros and shops as we spread it around.
I finally made a video for my 2023 audio response to visual score “Frequency Assembly 1” created by Tina Douglas for “hypha_e” visual score/performance project – http://tinadouglas.net/hypha_e One 15-minute track in 6 parts/”scenes”, representing my interpretation of the 6 panels of the visual score. Abstract worlds, ambiguous realities, transmissions of unknown origin, and other mysterious sci-fi shit. [00:00] 1. Blast Tunnel [02:39] 2. Infinite Data Expansion Wave [04:36] 3. Hallucinogenic Hyperspace Delirium [07:24] 4. Phantasmal Off-World [09:48] 5. Shifting [12:38] 6. Unrecognised Coordinates
This is the most involved thing I’ve ever done with SPASMOSLOP. I had the artwork on the wall of my studio for about a year and a half, gradually making recordings of what I thought it sounded like, bouncing back & forth between the visuals and the sound, adding layers and nitpicking the fuck out of everything as ideas came to me. Big thanks to Tina for the inspiration and coordination! Among many firsts that came about in this process, it’s also the first time I’ve ever had a SPASMOSLOP recording properly mastered – by Jason Fuller at Goatsound – and it sounds amazing, especially with headphones. He also mastered this while we were at it and completely transformed it into what I wanted it to be. Thanks Jason! Floating on inspiration from this project, I’ve been slowly recording a new SPASMOSLOP album for the last year or so which is nearly finished and should be out this year if I can have the self control to stop tinkering with it.
CLOGGED finally did a new recording! Thanks to INTERNAL ROT cancelling at the last minute we took their spot and recorded 20 songs at Goatsound last weekend, including a soon-to-be-infamous CRADLE OF FILTH cover!
The tracks will be split into a few releases:
– SOUNDS LIKE SHIT compilation on GRINDFATHER
– THIS IS MORTICIANWAVE VOL. 1 compilation on RADICAL BLARGHST
– and a full EP
Stay tuned for info on these things!
Big cheers to Yunis Tmeizeh for the pics above, and thanks to Flid and the hosts for hosting a sweet gig!
LET'S NOISE! 